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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I will look at the Official Report tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: If we just move on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Regarding the 340,000 premises that are Eir's part of the intervention area, Analysys Mason described them to us as a double whammy and outlined what that meant. First, it incurred a significant capital cost for the State, as the remaining bidder had no guarantee that it would be able to use Eir's infrastructure or that there would be no difficulties in accessing it. Second, the remaining...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Did it tell the Department that it had to allow this to go ahead, even though it would banjax the process for the other 540,000 premises?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Did the Commission supply documentation to the Department stating this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: It would be the same as if the Government and Transport Infrastructure Ireland wanted to build a motorway from Limerick to Cork and a private entity told them that it would build 20 km of it and that they could not go through that part if they wanted to build onto either end of it. In other words, the entity would hold the ring. That is what Eir has done. I find this difficult to accept if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: We are in this situation and the summary is that no matter which way it is turned or twisted, this is the major issue that derailed the process and left us with just one bidder and the fallacy that we were involved in a competitive process. There is no competitive process and there never can be if there is just one team playing on the pitch.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: The Minister told me it would not make it more difficult. That is on the record of the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I understand the state aid rules in respect of a private entity that intends to invest in an area within two years. The point I am making is that a private entity was allowed to occupy a space, so to speak, which then made it next to impossible to design a contract, obtain value for money or put in place a viable project to roll out this project and operate and maintain it for 25 years. If...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: The net effect is that we will have two systems running through the 340,000 area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: No one will be connected into one of the systems in the 340,000 area and the second one, the Eir system, will be active within that area. That is the net effect of the way we have gone with this project. On the cost of connections-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Eir informed the committee last week that its proposal was not an offer. It has since stated it could complete the project for a subsidy of between €500 million and €1.5 billion. In its letter it states: "We note that under the NBP plan, where the cost of connecting a Customer is more than €5,000 the customer will be asked to make a contribution." We know that from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: What about the cost to the customer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: In the case of NBI, where the cost goes over €5,000, the customer has to pay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I just wanted to clarify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: It will not be negligible in many cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: If a number of poles have to be put across fields, the cost will not be negligible. I am just stating that as a matter of fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: On the overall project, the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, oversees projects costing more than €20 million. In this case, we are looking at a project costing between €2.75 billion and €3 billion. Why was the National Development Finance Agency not involved in overseeing this contract? Its representatives were asked to come before the committee. The NDFA...